A Little Late Cretaceous Monster from the Banks of the Wapiti

By Corwin Sullivan, University of Alberta and Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum Huge dinosaurs like Pachyrhinosaurus and Edmontosaurus roamed the Grande Prairie area about 70 million years ago, but such heavyweights never had the Cretaceous world to themselves. There were plenty of smaller dinosaurs around, like the little carnivore Boreonykus, and dinosaurs were only one...

Pushing the boundaries of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: Insights from cutting-edge pre-clinical research

March 28, 2024 Jenny Ryan Biology and Life Sciences, General Science, Health, Medicine and Veterinary Science

Pushing the boundaries of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: Insights from cutting-edge pre-clinical research Transplantation Stem Cells Blood Thursday, March 28, 2024 Tanvir Hasan This blog was written by Tanvir Hasan, a senior research assistant in the lab of Canadian Blood Services research scientist, Dr. Hari Maganti, with collaboration from Ajay Ratan Pasala (PhD candidate) and...

Earth’s Hottest-Year Record Just Got Scorched

March 28, 2024 Research2Reality Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science

It's sadly unsurprising that 2023 was the hottest year on record. Is it the latest sign of worsening climate change, or are other factors at play? Get the full story Earth’s Hottest-Year Record Just Got Scorched

What can we conclude from the rash of published papers with obvious fingerprints of ChatGPT?

March 26, 2024 Stephen Heard Biology and Life Sciences, General Science

Over the last few weeks, there’s been a small flood of cases where a published paper turns out to have clear fingerprints of its authors’ use of ChatGPT (or other so-called “artificial intelligence” tools). By “fingerprints” I don’t mean the kind of odd-but-acceptable phrasing ChatGPT sometimes comes up with. I mean laugh-out-loud ridiculous things like...

The Anthropocene: our sedimentary footprint

March 25, 2024 Science Borealis General Science

By Mary Anne Schoenhardt, Science in Society editor What comes to mind when you think of the term Anthropocene? A dystopian novel? A hazy city filled with smog? Or do you think of the Holocene or Pleistocene epochs, and exhibits on evolution at the museum? While it may sound like something out of pop culture,...

Saskatchewan Success Story: SRC helps the Accelerated Site Closure Program Achieve Award-Winning Results

March 20, 2024April 15, 2024 Saskatchewan Research Council Environmental and Earth Sciences, General Science, Technology and Engineering

During a time when a global pandemic brought industries across the world to a standstill, shuttering businesses and stymying job growth, the Government of Saskatchewan initiated a program to help get people back to work.

Whether or not your Introduction should include your main result is “the most controversial issue in science”!

March 19, 2024 Stephen Heard Biology and Life Sciences, General Science

OK, it isn’t really, but I enjoyed seeing Dynamic Ecology say so. A couple of weeks ago I argued here that it’s effective, and thus desirable, to end the Introduction of a scientific paper with a brief statement of your main result. But I also admitted that this isn’t universally held opinion; in fact, I’ve...

Loretta Garbutt: A Little Story with a Big Message

March 15, 2024 L. E. Carmichael Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science

Welcome to Cantastic Authorpalooza, featuring posts by and about great Canadian children’s book creators! Today’s guest: Loretta Garbutt. Take it away, Loretta! Writing for children is an incredible experience and it’s also a lot of hard work. But, I love it. Not every single minute, but when I sit to write, I feel like I’m...

“Artificial intelligence” isn’t

March 12, 2024 Stephen Heard Biology and Life Sciences, General Science

Like a lot of people, I’ve been watching with great curiosity the rapid development and deployment of “artificial intelligence” tools like ChatGPT. (I’ve been writing about them a fair bit too, most recently for a chapter in my new book on teaching scientific writing.) To my mind, what’s even more fascinating than the capability of...

Canada’s Bermuda Triangle

March 11, 2024March 11, 2024 Sci/Why Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science

The magnetism of the north and south poles are what make a compass work. But the pull of those poles is affected by the ground beneath your feet. WHY?A magnetic anomaly at the eastern tip of Lake Ontario means that a compass reading there may be wrong by as much as 16° in either direction—east...

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